Working Model of Radio Dish from One Mile Telescope,Cambridge

Made:
1964 in London and England
Working model of one of the three steerable paraboloidal Working model of one of the three steerable paraboloidal

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Working model of one of the three steerable paraboloidal
Science Museum Group Collection
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Working model of one of the three steerable paraboloidal
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Working model of one of the three steerable paraboloidal aerials of the Cambridge University 5000 feet radio telescope. On a board 28"x18"; diameter of bowl 23". The telescope, also known as the One Mile Telescope, used Earth-rotation aperture synthesis techniques developed by Martin Ryle.

Made in 1964, this is a model of one of the three radio dishes forming the 'One Mile Telescope' (OMT). Built at Lords Bridge near Cambridge in 1964, the three dishes form a radio interferometer with a baseline of around a mile. Signals collected by the three radio telescopes are combined using a technique called aperture synthesis. This gives a radio picture of the object being observed at a resolution that is equivalent to using a radio telescope one mile in diameter. Sir Martin Ryle a pioneer of radio astronomy developed the OMT and in 1957 established radio astronomy at Cambridge University. This telescope and other instruments now form the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory at Cambridge.

Details

Category:
Astronomy
Object Number:
1964-297
Materials:
metal, textile and electrical components
Measurements:
overall: 770 mm x 580 mm x 770 mm, 10kg
type:
models (representation), astronomical instruments and radio telescopes
credit:
Babcock International Group plc